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Simon Dale: How I built my hobbit house in Wales for just £3,000

Simon Dale: How I built my hobbit house in Wales for just £3,000
By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 21:26 EDT, 21 September 2011 Fed up with huge mortgage payments, Simon Dale decided to take matters into his own hands – literally. Armed with only a chisel, a chainsaw and a hammer, the 32-year-old moved his family to a hillside in Wales and started digging. The result is a wooden eco-home – constructed in four months and costing just £3,000 – which would look perfectly at ease alongside the Hobbit houses in The Lord Of The Rings. Finished article: Simon Dale's family home which he built in four months for a cost of £3,000 Nestled: The moon rises on the house which is roofed with grass and blends in to its woodland surroundings Cosy home: The house is heated by a wood burner and a solar panel provides power Mr Dale, who has no experience in carpentry or architecture, created his sustainable family home using scrap wood for floors, materials scavenged from skips and by diverting water from a nearby spring. From scratch: Simon Dale building his 'hobbit house' Related:  ARCHITECTURE et NATURE

Beehive-Inspired Vertical Farm is a Self-Sufficient Mini Ecosystem for London Busy little London bees might love a chance to live in this green building set alongside the Thames and the London bridge, but it's actually meant for humans. Covered in foliage, this honeycomb tower is part vertical farm and part residential building combined to create a mini eco system. Fully self-sufficient, the London Tower Farm proposal by Mexican firm Xome Arquitectos collects its own rainwater, generates energy, and grows food for residents in the center of the building. Xome Arquitectos began their design based on the premise that by 2050 more than 70% of the world’s population will live in an urban environment. The tower’s facade was based on the strategy of carbon, life’s building block with the atomic number of 6. + Xome Arquitectos Via ArchDaily Images ©Efecto Veintiuno

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A beautiful cob home in England Which means, "Where are you going? It's getting dark, so come in and take a drink". If you're interested in English accents you can listen to the Somerset accent on the BBC The home is the work of Lisa and Rich who built the house with clay from the stream that runs just out of view in this picture. They collected roundwood of Pine and Hawthorne thinned from the local woodlands to build the frame of the home. If you want to build with cob then you must test the quality of your clay. Make compact balls of the mixes about 6cm diameter.

Eco*Dome « Alter*Native ~ Holistic*Être La Terre c’est de l’Or dans les mains de l’homme sage ! Tout ce qui est carré est Terrestre, tout ce qui est rond est Céleste ! La terre est une matière première ! L’homme l’utilise comme matériau depuis des millénaires pour construire des maisons, même en France. Construire une maison en terre ? A l’encontre des idées reçues, ce système de construction est possible pratiquement partout. Voyage en ma Terre Première La terre possède une caractéristique unique : elle peut être mise en œuvre de façons très diverses. Nader Khalili, le père du concept des EcoDôme Nader Khalili, un architecte américain d’origine iranienne (il a fait ses études en Iran, en Turquie et aux USA), concevait à l’origine des gratte-ciel. Puis, suite à une demande de la NASA, il a élaboré un concept de maison pour les missions spatiales sur la lune, ceci en utilisant le matériau disponible localement : la poussière lunaire. Il reçoit le prix Aga Kahn d’Architecture en 2004. alors que dans les pays occidentaux, Source :

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index French architecture firm targets China’s pollution and population problems with cutting-edge ‘farmscrapers’  Solent News/Rex / Rex USA/Solent News/Rex / Rex USA French architecture firm Vincent Callebaut Architects has designed a series of six ‘farmscrapers,’ which they hope will go up in Shenzhen, China. To combat soaring population and pollution problems in China, a French architecture firm is looking up — and going green. Vincent Callebaut Architects has designed a series of six sky-high "farmscrapers," futuristic residential and business towers equipped with wind turbines and solar cells to create renewable energy. "Our view is to turn each constrain into an opportunity and convert waste into renewable natural resources," the company said in a statement. The eco-friendly castles in the sky, planned to go up in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, will measure 1,300 feet high and have 111 floors each. Solent News/Rex / Rex USA/Solent News/Rex / Rex USA Each of the ‘farmscrapers’ will be 1,300 feet tall and have 111 floors. Each pebble-shaped level houses a suspended garden on its exterior.

Multi Threaded WebScraping in CSharpDotNetTech Download source Suggestions have been incorporated. Kindly Suggest, Vote, Comment to improve it Introduction *All the code examples are for learning purpose. * Project with Source Code of most of the Examples has been added. Web Scraping involves obtaining information of interest from the webpages. I have used the tutorial based Step by Step approach and web scrapping work starts from the first line of the tutorial. Contents The Contents I have covered are: And a lot of relevant Tasks to keep the learner motivated to explore his innovation. WebBrowser Control Top This control provides a built in full browser as a control. Example: WebBrowser Download Event Add WebBrowser Control to the Form. Navigate Function is used to navigate to the given address Document completed event is fired once the document is completed loaded Now Run the program There are many solutions available to solve the above problem, like counting i-frames and then counting number of times the Document Completed Event Fire.

Cloughjordan Cloughjordan Cloughjordan is an ecovillage in the process of being established in Co Tipperary, Ireland. We visited in Jan 2013 as guests of Pat and Wendy Malone, and here are a few photos from the visit. The Village has planning permission for 130 dwellings, of which about fifty are currently built or being built. Sites are for sale on the open market, and are selling much more slowly after the economic downturn. The planning requirements are that the houses be situated fairly close together, (to benefit from a common district heating system) be at least two stories high to reflect the local vernacular style, and be of a very high standard of insulation, finish etc. It is interesting to see how the initial vision and planning regime for different ecovillages results in different emphases. in a highly sophisticated boiler, or, in the sunnier times of year, heated in Ireland's largest solar water heating panel installation, then sent down piping costing about 60 euros per metre

Retrofitting our Skyscrapers For Food and Power Nicolai Ouroussoff writes about all the new glass towers architects are designing in New York these days; they are lovely things, but what will power them or feed their occupants in years to come? Green roofs won't do it, they are too small. Daekwon Park has a great idea, seen in the 2008 Evolo skyscraper competition: a way to reunite the isolated city blocks and insert a multi-layer network of public space, green space and nodes for the city. Clipping onto the exterior of existing buildings, a series of prefabricated modules serving different functions would be stacked on top of each other, adding a layer of green space for gardening, wind turbines or social uses to make new green façades and infrastructures. There are modules for vertical gardens and connections to other buildings through a network of skywalks; Wind turbine units and program units that could serve many public functions.

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